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| Basic information | Name: Pennyweight This is an OFFICIAL meteorite name. Abbreviation: There is no official abbreviation for this meteorite. Observed fall: No Year found: 1982 Country: Australia Mass:  12.7 g | ||||||||||||||||
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This is 1 of 150 approved meteorites (plus 1 unapproved name) classified as Iron, ungrouped. [show all] Search for other: Iron meteorites, Metal-rich meteorites, and Ungrouped irons | ||||||||||||||||
| Writeup |
Writeup from MB 68:
Warning: the following text was scanned and may contain character recognition errors. Refer to the original to be sure of accuracy. Pennyweight Pennyweight Point well, Western Australia, Australia Found May 1982 Iron. Ungrouped (IRANOM). A single mass weighing 12.7 g was found, A. W. R. Bevan, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, pers. comm., 1989. Almost certainly a metal nodule from a mesosiderite, analysis, 8.2% Ni, 14.8 ppm Ga, 59.4 ppm Ge, 5.76 ppm Ir, J. T. Wasson et al., Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 1989, 53, p. 735. Main mass, Perth, West. Austr. Mus. | ||||||||||||||||
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| References: | Published in Meteoritical Bulletin, no. 68, Meteoritics 25, 59-70 (1990)
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Statistics: This is 1 of 348 approved meteorites from Western Australia, Australia (plus 1 unapproved name) (plus 11 impact craters) This is 1 of 718 approved meteorites from Australia (plus 46 unapproved names) (plus 27 impact craters) | ||||||||||||||||
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Pennyweight Point (From MetBase) | ||||||||||||||||